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If You Really Wanted to Get Me Something … Jennifer Rasmusson & Erin Margot

By Heather Hopkins on December 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

If recent weather is any indication, I don’t think we’ll have to dream of a white Christmas. Bing Crosby’s wishes will likely be a reality for Utah residents. While I love the winter wonderland, I have to admit the icy forecast has me dreaming of spring florals. With that being said, what I want for Christmas is some unique floral works by local artists.
Jennifer Rasmusson was just featured in her newest solo exhibition at ‘A’ Gallery in Salt Lake City.

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

Elisa Gomez, Immersed in Color

By Jesslyn Low on November 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Explosive colors surround Elisa Gomez. From blues so deep they almost look black to rich yellows and bright scarlet reds. Gomez’s works reach out, inviting their viewers to step closer and take in the stirring colors, compositions, and textures found on their canvases. Like her works, Gomez’s life […]

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That Time of Year: Holiday Art Markets, Open Studios and More

By 15 Bytes on November 26, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Do you remember the days when you barely left your house? When your sweatpants felt like a second skin? If you bought art, it was online? Well, those days are definitely over. Some fine threads should be on your gift list. And you should get out. Because the […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Everyone Has a Guardian Angel in Ogden Spirituality and Religion Show

By Geoff Wichert on November 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

There are places in the world, some of them in the United States, where the “Religion and Spirituality” show, as it is fondly known in so many Utah galleries, would not be allowed. Once upon a time, that might have been because of institutional hostility to all religious […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

In Gallery MAR Exhibit, Havoc Hendricks Shares His Mountain Dream

By Emily Larsen on November 24, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Provo-based artist Havoc Hendricks calls his pattern-based paintings “detailed minimalism.” The often large-scale paintings recreate linear patterns found in nature, line upon line. Lines and patterns are something Hendricks has observed his whole life. From his childhood in Idaho, he remembers being fascinated by his”grandfather’s geode collection, watching […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Art Access Exhibit at Marriott Library is a Lab of Wonders

By Geoff Wichert on November 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

You know you’re dealing with successful assemblage when scavenged and repurposed parts unite to transcend their reality as fragments, though without erasing your awareness of them as such, and instead create a totally convincing alternative interpretation in your senses. Such an object is Sylvia Ohara’s “Perspective,” a three-legged […]

In Plain Site | Visual Arts

Chakaia Booker’s Sculptures Make for Outdoor Intrigue in Ogden

By Geoff Wichert on November 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Regular readers of 15 Bytes will have read about the Ogden Contemporary Art Gallery, known succinctly as the OCA. Anyone who followed up a review or event notice by visiting won’t need to be told what a wonderful venue it is, with its modernist, two-story, open plan gallery […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

SWA 2022 Works Are Embedded in Our Common Cause

By Geoff Wichert on November 21, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

The largest work in Utah Arts & Museum’s Statewide Annual at Ogden Contemporary Arts is Cody Chamberlain’s “Procession,” an almost mural-sized, hyper-realistic depiction of a place somewhere in the vast Utah desert. It’s an accepted convention not to reveal the locations of rock art, for fear that if […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Carlisle Cooks Up Some Abstracts in SLC’s Kiln

By Rebecca Pyle on November 18, 2022

The big sturdy abstracts by the artist Carlisle, placed in as vast an interior space as Kiln, a “co-working office space,” in the Gateway complex, become almost small paintings, though many are five feet tall. Kiln itself looks deceptively small from the outside: it’s many-chambered, many-halled, full of […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Death and Beauty and Hope and Change in Emily Christensen McPhie’s Nature as a Goddess

By Rebecca Pyle on November 17, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

The actress, the model, the bird-girl, the queen, the naturalist — Emily Christensen McPhie’s portraits of women in her Nature as a Goddess show at David Ericson racks them all in, in a way the old-time illustrator Arthur Rackham would like, in the way Cindy Sherman the modern […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

In Paint and Clay, Brooke Bowen and Mya Cluff Provide Insight Into “Pandemic Motherhood”

By Geoff Wichert on November 14, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Throughout the Covid pandemic, public conversation made much of the experience of isolation. Recent art exhibits, several reviewed on this site, included interpretations of solitude and of its consequences. Still, for such a commonplace source of suffering, it didn’t seem all that well illustrated — perhaps because it […]

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UAA’s ILLUMINATE Lights Up Salt Lake City

By Heather Hopkins on November 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Salt Lake City is being illuminated for the 6th year in a row, as Utah Arts Alliance presents its latest rendition of ILLUMINATE: Utah’s Light Art +Creative Tech Festival. Previously presented in The Gateway, this year’s festival has moved to Library Square to accommodate the growing show. While […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Finally, A Sense of Place

By Geoff Wichert on November 11, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

If the word “pandemic” is spoken, it may bring many things to mind, like fear, anxiety, isolation, frustration, even shame: stories of mortality, the loss of several years of life, and the setbacks that may make that loss permanent. All these elements are on display right now at […]

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Woodbine Murals and Utah Art Market

By In Plain Site on November 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

If you’re attending Salt Lake City’s Utah Art Market this weekend — at their Granary location rather than their longstanding Foothill Village home — you’ll have a chance to see some non-movable street art along with all the perfect gift-size items you can find inside. Earlier this year, […]

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

Veera Kasicharernvat: The Way of the Mark

By Shawn Rossiter on November 7, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Veera Kasicharernvat stands tall, though not rigid. As he moves about his studio, weaving between press and table and bookshelves, his movements are supple, purposeful. Quick with a smile, his is a quiet, joyful presence. The energy he brings to this space, where he paints and prints and […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Christy Chan Takes a Peek Under the Hood

By Geoff Wichert on November 5, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

In her video installation, Who’s Coming to Save You? artist Christy Chan undermines what has become a too-familiar impulse in the population at large. That is, as her title suggests, the assumption that salvation, either political or something stronger, is our only hope for the future and so must […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Terror and Beauty Ignite the Canvases of Heydar Rasoulpur in UMOCA Exhibit

By Geoff Wichert on November 4, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The paintings of Heydar Rasoulpur include some of the most vivid dreamscapes, capturing the most telling and painful memories, to have emerged from the ship-wreckage of nations that have literally cast so many homeless millions onto stormy seas in the decades since the Millennium. It should perhaps come […]

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If You Really Wanted to Get Me Something … Jennifer Rasmusson & Erin Margot

Elisa Gomez, Immersed in Color

That Time of Year: Holiday Art Markets, Open Studios and More

Everyone Has a Guardian Angel in Ogden Spirituality and Religion Show

In Gallery MAR Exhibit, Havoc Hendricks Shares His Mountain Dream

Art Access Exhibit at Marriott Library is a Lab of Wonders

Chakaia Booker’s Sculptures Make for Outdoor Intrigue in Ogden

SWA 2022 Works Are Embedded in Our Common Cause

Carlisle Cooks Up Some Abstracts in SLC’s Kiln

Death and Beauty and Hope and Change in Emily Christensen McPhie’s Nature as a Goddess

In Paint and Clay, Brooke Bowen and Mya Cluff Provide Insight Into “Pandemic Motherhood”

UAA’s ILLUMINATE Lights Up Salt Lake City

Finally, A Sense of Place

Woodbine Murals and Utah Art Market

Veera Kasicharernvat: The Way of the Mark

Christy Chan Takes a Peek Under the Hood

Terror and Beauty Ignite the Canvases of Heydar Rasoulpur in UMOCA Exhibit

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